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Developing Coaching Skills: A Concise Introduction
Learn how to coach effectively—and help others unlock their potential!Do you plan to become a professional coach? Do you want to enhance your coaching skills to become a better coach or leader? Or do you just want to know more about how coaching works to help improve the lives of others?With this concise coaching textbook, you will quickly learn the main principles and tools of executive coaching and life coaching.Key features:
A compact yet comprehensive overview of how coaching works
Over 200 powerful coaching questions that you can apply right away
Master all phases of the coaching process
Conduct effective coaching conversations in a goal- and solution-oriented way
Develop essential coaching skills (e.g. questioning, active listening, goal setting, giving constructive feedback, coaching for performance, dealing with emotions, and supporting behavior change)
Tried and tested coaching tools
Best-practice insights into how experienced coaches work
Practical coaching exercises for developing your own coaching skills
Free bonus learning materials on the companion website
Developing Coaching Skills is essential reading for aspiring and practicing coaches, as well as for leaders and students of coaching.Learn what effective coaching really means, make coaching a habit, and bring out the best in other people!
A compact yet comprehensive overview of how coaching works
Over 200 powerful coaching questions that you can apply right away
Master all phases of the coaching process
Conduct effective coaching conversations in a goal- and solution-oriented way
Develop essential coaching skills (e.g. questioning, active listening, goal setting, giving constructive feedback, coaching for performance, dealing with emotions, and supporting behavior change)
Tried and tested coaching tools
Best-practice insights into how experienced coaches work
Practical coaching exercises for developing your own coaching skills
Free bonus learning materials on the companion website
Developing Coaching Skills is essential reading for aspiring and practicing coaches, as well as for leaders and students of coaching.Learn what effective coaching really means, make coaching a habit, and bring out the best in other people!
150 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 9, 2021
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October 3, 2021
Surpreendido com este livro. Uma excelente ferramenta para quem pretende começar a estudar / aprender mais sobre coaching, mas também para quem já começou a fazer coaching. Resume muito bem as principais ferramentas e dá uma visão clara, objectiva, do que se pretende com a utilização de cada uma delas.
Para quem trabalha na área de coaching, arrisco a dizer, pode muito bem ser aquele companheiro que irá desbloquear alguns processos e trazer mais clarividência.
Para quem trabalha na área de coaching, arrisco a dizer, pode muito bem ser aquele companheiro que irá desbloquear alguns processos e trazer mais clarividência.
January 14, 2025
I’m only beginning my professional life coaching journey and this book helped to frame what I’ll need to get started and offered useful tools and techniques that I’ll be able to use both in the short and long terms. It isn’t a “read and shelve” book. I’ll be able to refer to this book for as long as I decide to coach. It’s an easy read and hits the right amount of “technical” detail to get and keep you engaged.
September 17, 2022
Concise - no fluff
If you want to quickly learn some effective coaching tools without slogging through hundreds of pages of fluff, then this is the book for you. Almost every paragraph had some new idea or effective tool to share. This book will help you save time reading and studying, so you can spend more time coaching others!
If you want to quickly learn some effective coaching tools without slogging through hundreds of pages of fluff, then this is the book for you. Almost every paragraph had some new idea or effective tool to share. This book will help you save time reading and studying, so you can spend more time coaching others!
April 3, 2022
Good book for getting started
Easy to read and understand. It does not go very deep into any one area, but gives you enough to know the big picture and decide what areas you want to develop further.
Easy to read and understand. It does not go very deep into any one area, but gives you enough to know the big picture and decide what areas you want to develop further.
April 1, 2025
A great resource for any coach to have on hand. It reads like a quick how-to guide that covers the fundamentals of coaching. I enjoyed it and will certainly utilize the questions and frameworks included.
October 12, 2021
This will help you actually coach
This is a small yet big book. Small in size but big in usefulness. Thank you to the author. Apreciate.
This is a small yet big book. Small in size but big in usefulness. Thank you to the author. Apreciate.
July 3, 2022
A very good introduction to coaching! While this is looks like a short book, actually it has many practical tools and exercises. I believe is a book to come back often.
September 26, 2022
A very short but informative summary about coaching. The author provide tools ans concepts to quickly tap into the working process. Very short and pleasureful read!
April 27, 2025
Was good overall regarding concept of coaching and methods used. Good questions too but felt book could have been organized better to be a better reference after reading.
July 12, 2025
Pretty easy read, provided good fundamental concepts for beginners.
May 31, 2024
Great intro to the field
In preparing my self to transition from a retired chief exective into becoming an executive coach, this book was recommended to me by my own executive coach who felt that I should enter the field myself. Read several other books but this one is among the best I have read on the subject. Not a lot of theoretical concepts but practical, easy to follow steps and tool to which I could already relate and draw on from my previous experiences as an executive who is passionate about helping bring out the best in others. What I particularly liked in this book was the summary points at the end of each chapter. So halfway through the reading, I decided to first read the summary pints at the end then go back and read and understand the detailed concepts in the chapter. I found that very helpful. Good starting book, as well as a reference, for new executive coaches. Highly recommended.
In preparing my self to transition from a retired chief exective into becoming an executive coach, this book was recommended to me by my own executive coach who felt that I should enter the field myself. Read several other books but this one is among the best I have read on the subject. Not a lot of theoretical concepts but practical, easy to follow steps and tool to which I could already relate and draw on from my previous experiences as an executive who is passionate about helping bring out the best in others. What I particularly liked in this book was the summary points at the end of each chapter. So halfway through the reading, I decided to first read the summary pints at the end then go back and read and understand the detailed concepts in the chapter. I found that very helpful. Good starting book, as well as a reference, for new executive coaches. Highly recommended.
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